Today's Stichomancy for Charlie Chaplin

The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine:

view, I'm thinking. But you'll never tell me the lad pretended
one thing and did another. I'll never believe you like that
milksop Chaves better."

"Must I choose either a fool or a knave?"

"I doubt it will be no choice of yours. Juan Valdez is an ill man
to deny what he sets his heart on. If the lady is willing--"

"I shall give her to the knave and wash my hands of her. Since
treason thrives she may at last come back to the palace as its
mistress. Quien sabe?"

"Less likely things have happened. What news, Rodrigo?" This last
to the messenger, who at that moment appeared at the door.

The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach:

Ezekiel 41: 7 And the side-chambers were broader as they wound about higher and higher; for the winding about of the house went higher and higher round about the house; therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest row to the highest by the middle.

Ezekiel 41: 8 I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six cubits to the joining.

Ezekiel 41: 9 The breadth of the outer wall which belonged to the side-chambers was five cubits; and so that which was left by the structure of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.

Ezekiel 41: 10 And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

Ezekiel 41: 11 And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

Ezekiel 41: 12 And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

Ezekiel 41: 13 And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long;

Ezekiel 41: 14 also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.

The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson:

And there are woven with his jollities
The nameless and eternal tragedies
That render hope and hopelessness akin.

We laugh, and crown him; but anon we feel
A still chord sorrow-swept, -- a weird unrest;
And thin dim shadows home to midnight steal,
As if the very ghost of mirth were dead --
As if the joys of time to dreams had fled,
Or sailed away with Ines to the West.